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(No Model.) G. SCHMIDT.

TIME ATTACHMENT TO STOP COCKS FOR WATER METERS.

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Patented Dec. 5, 1882.

WITNESSES I.

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CHRISTIAN SCHMIDT, or MIAMISBURG, OHIO, ASSIGNOR T FERDNANI) SWARTZTRAUBER, FRANZ LIEZENHOFF, JOHN STOOKER, AND ADAM SIL- BERMAN, ALL or SAME PLACE.

TIME ATTACHMENT TO STOP-COCKS FOR WATER-METERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 268,733, dated December 5, 1882,

Application filed April 22, 1882, (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: I The stopvalve F, which may be of any ap- Be it known that I, CHRISTIAN ScHnID'I,of proved construction, is located within box A, Miamisburg, in the county of Montgomery and with its neck f projecting through the side of State of Ohio, have invented certain new and the same, so that it may be opened or shut 5 uset'ullmprovements in Water-Meters; and I from the outside. ValveF has an arm, G, prodo hereby declare that the following is a full, jecting on one side, at the outer end of which clear, and exact description of the invention, is a rod or pitman, H, that connects it with a which will enable others skilled in the art to plate, I, which slides on the back plate of the which-it appertains to make and use the same, clock-casing D. This plate is connected by a Io reference being had to the accompanying drawpin or stud, which projects into the interior of ings, which form apartofthis specification,and the clock mechanism through a slot, (1, in the in which;- back plate, with the escapement of the clock in Figure 1 is a perspective view of my imsuch a manner that when the valveis turned to proved water-meter. Fig. 2 is a perspective open the supply-pipe, arm G, pushing rod H,

1 view of the interior of the same, the back plate shoves plate I up, so as to release it from the having been removed, and Fig. 3 is a detail escapement and set the clock going, while view of the stop-cock with its arm and conwhen the valve is turned in the opposite di- 6 necting-rod for stopping the clock mechanism. rection to shut oh the water, arm G and rod Similar letters of reference indicate corre- H operate to so adjust plate I that the clock 20 sponding partsvin all the figures. will be stopped.

My invention has relation to that class of As there are many wavs by which the conwater-meters in which the quantity of the wanection between the sliding plate I and the ter supplied through it is indicated by a mechclock-escapement may be made, so as to stop anism registering the length of time ofits flow; the clock when plate I is shoved in one direc- 25 and it consists in so combining the registering tion, but set it going when it is shoved in the mechanism with a stop-cock that the former opposite direction, I do not confine myself to only indicates the length of time of the flow any particular construction or combination of independent of the speed of the same, as herethese parts. inafter more fully described, and particularly From the foregoing it will be seen that the 0 pointed out in the claim. clock will run only while water flows through In the accompanying drawings, the letterA pipe E, the elbow of which passes through the representsa box or casing, of castiron or other casing A, and the capacity of the pipe and suitable material, the top or'back part or one pressure or speed of fiow of water being apof the sides of which is hinged, so as to form proximately known,thequantityofwaterwhich 35 a door, by which access may be had to the inhas passed through the pipe can readily be deterior of the box. Thisdoor is securelylocked, duced by reading olf the length of time the and the key should be in possession of a dulyflow has lasted in hours and minutes; or, it authorized inspector of water-meters. desired, the clock-dial 0 may be marked with Into the face-plate or front side of box A figures indicating thequantity ofwaterin bar- 0 is inserted a clock, 13, of any suitable conrels, by cubic feet,or any other approved measstruction, the dial 0 of which may be left exure, correspondingto the quantity of waterthat posed; or, if desired,- it may be covered by a has passed through the pipe in a given time hinged or sliding cover. The casing D, which viz., the running-time ot' the clock. contains the clock mechanism, projects into I am aware of Patent No.8,725, of 1852, for

45 and is contained in the box A. an air and gas meter in which greater or less E is the supply-pipe, which has an inlet, a, speed is given to mechanism as the cock is and. outlet 1); or b may be the inlet and a the more or less open, and such construction is not 5 outlet. sought to be covered in this application, my

the clock mechanism being otherwise independent of the flow of water through the supply-pipe, substantially as and for the purpose shown and set forth.

In testimony that Iclai m theforegoing as my own I have hereunto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHRISTIAN SCHMIDT.

Witnesses FERDNAND SWARZTRAUBER, J. F. REILY. 

